Introductory article explaining why Forrestal’s death was suspicious, written without benefit of the Willcutts Report (which didn’t come to light until later). Analyzes several New York Times articles published around the time and three biographies:

James Forrestal: A Study of Personality, Politics, and Policy
by Arnold A. Rogow (1963).

The Death of James Forrestal
by Cornell Simpson (1966).

Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal
by Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley (1992).

Compares and contrasts Forrestal’s death with that of Vince Foster, describes the reaction of Forrestal’s brother, notes that the Willcutts Report (as described in newspapers at the time) did not conclude suicide, considers who benefited from Forrestal’s death, points out prime suspects.

Much more analysis, this time informed by the Willcutts Report.

Public announcement of the discovery of the Willcutts Report.

Analyzes a Washington Post newspaper article published on the 50th anniversary of Forrestal’s death. Compares the alleged Forrestal transcription of a Greek poem with authentic samples of his handwriting.

Photostats of Forrestal’s alleged transcription of Sophocles’ “Chorus From Ajax” then several samples of his handwriting from the Truman Library archives.

Compares Forrestal with Britain’s Foreign Minister, Ernest Bevin, who proto-Israeli Zionists planned to assassinate in 1946. (This per MI5. Security was tightened in response which may have thwarted such an attempt.) Compares Forrestal’s death with the assassination of Folke Bernadotte of Sweden. Says that Cornell Simpson is the penname of Medford Evans but corrects that statement in an update at the article’s end.

Announces Princeton’s Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library’s acquisition of the Willcutts Report and describes the response of the press and historians to it:

David E. Kaiser, Professor of History at the Naval War College.

Christopher Sharrett, Professor of Communications at Seton Hall University.

Donald A. Ritchie, U.S. Senate Historian.

Nickolas Roth, Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Loren Ghiglione, Professor of Media Ethics at Northwestern University’s School of Journalism.

About the book
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
by James Carroll.

David Martin’s letters to:

Douglas Brinkley,  Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane University.

David Roll,  of Steptoe & Johnson and co-author with Keith McFarland of the book Louis Johnson and the Arming of America.

Letter to James Barrens, Executive Director of the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies at St. Leo University, and James A. Rudin of same.

Letter to Steve Vogel, Washington Post Pentagon correspondent and author of the book The Pentagon: A History.

Letter to Jerrold Post – Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology and International Affairs; Director of the Political Psychology Program at George Washington University; founder and former director of the CIA’s Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior.

Letter to Brian Balogh, Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia and co-director of the Miller Center Fellowships in Public Affairs.

As does Forrestal’s former chauffeur, John Spalding.

Audio recording of an interview conducted on August 20, 2007.

About the authorship and nature of the book  The Death of James Forrestal  by Cornell Simpson, a pseudonym.

Forrestal’s plan to end the war with Japan five and a half months before the atom bombing, if followed, would have prevented the deaths of thousands of American soldiers at Okinawa and in other needless battles, and helped prevent post-war insanities such as allowing the Soviet Union to take over Eastern Europe.

An interesting comparison of various accounts of Joseph McCarthy’s final illness.  Forrestal’s has not been the only questionable death at Bethesda.

Walter Trohan was a journalist for the Chicago Tribune and its bureau chief in Washington, D.C. during and after WW II.  He helped expose FDR’s duplicity about Pearl Harbor.  This is in contrast to his later treatment of James Forrestal, about whose death he parrots the conventional story.  The above article contains many interesting quotes from his autobiography Political Animals: Memoirs of a Sentimental Cynic  regarding Pearl Harbor.

A history book finally uses the Willcutts Report as one of its sources, The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson, yet it still perpetuates the myth of Forrestal’s suicide.

Leftists attack Forrestal’s anti-communism by means of his alleged suicide, as illustrated in The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick.  The above article analyzes the book’s willfully poor scholarship.

Comments on Matthew McNiece’s Ph.D. thesis “Un-Americans” and “Anti-Communists”: The Rhetorical Battle to Define Twentieth-Century America.

An up-to-date review of the Forrestal case and David Martin’s work on it. Begins by telling how he first became interested in Forrestal while investigating the news media’s treatment of another mysterious death, that of Vince Foster. He points out the similar types of lies, distortions and omissions used to promote the suicide story in both cases.

Details David Martin’s effort to get two websites to set their records straight.

Letter to Prof. Gregg Herken (emeritus), author of The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington.

Letters to Donald R. McClarey and Tito Edwards of The American Catholic about Mr. McClarey’s article “James Forrestal and his Prophecy.”

Letter to John Simkin about his Spartacus Educational website’s entry on Forrestal.

A daughter of Edward Prise emailed David Martin on September 26, 2017. The meat of her message reads: Mr. Martin considers why Prise would be afraid and, in particular, points out that 1991 was when Hoopes and Brinkley were working on their biography of Forrestal.

About the subsequent war record of Edward Prise. And about his name being obscured in the Willcutts Report (where it is Price) along with that of another witness, Nurse Hardy (where it is Harty). Reasons to believe Forrestal was murdered rather than committing suicide.

A capsule biography of Forrestal covering the years before March 1949. It is the Introduction from David Martin’s book (now its second edition)  The Assassination of James Forrestal.  See also the book review by Catherine Austin Fitts.

An astute reader of Mr. Martin’s book (see above) found a news article of March 29, 1948 – datelined the day before – that describes the Capitol Hill ceremony at which Truman presented Forrestal with the Distinguished Service medal. The article concludes:This completely explodes Marx Leva’s account of how Forrestal came to visit Hobe Sound, and indeed his whole account of Forrestal’s movements after the ceremony.

“What is it about being critical of Jews that is so special and different that it could get Forrestal labeled an awful anti-Semite by a wide range of scholars ... based upon the flimsiest of evidence?”

Zionists may have been as much behind Forrestal’s untimely death as they were the destruction of his reputation.

Zionists have a long history of assassinating perceived enemies.  Adapted from the concluding chapter of  The Assassination of James Forrestal.

Besides Ernest Bevin (see above), another Briton may have been in the proto-Israelis’ crosshairs: Lord Northcliffe (Alfred Harmsworth), owner of a number of British newspapers, including a controlling interest in the Times. He was openly critical of what Zionists were doing in Israel and met an untimely end. Were the two related? Mr. Martin quotes from Douglas Reed’s The Controversy of Zion (1978) and considers the similarities with Forrestal’s case.

Historian Ralph B. Levering airbrushes Forrestal off the pages of history.

The author of  The Assassination of James Forrestal takes issue with an Amazon book reviewer.

The “dean” being John Lewis Gaddis.

Mendacity and murder in the creation of Israel.